FEDERAL
EXECUTIVES MEETING HELD AT NAGPUR ON 11TH FEBRUARY 2019

·ENDORSED
THE FOLLOWING DECISIONS OF THE CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE OF CIVIL ACCOUNTS
EMPLOYEES AND OFFICERS ASSOCIATIONS-

1.Seeking immediate intervention of the Government of India
against indifferent attitude of CGA towards the causes of employees&
officers of the organization.

2.Poster campaign from 1st March 2019

3.Two days mass Dharna on 12th &13th March 19 in front of CGA
office, New Delhi

·DECIDED
TO RESORT TO LEGAL ACTIONS ON ISSUES OF GRANT OF

1.Benefit
of MACPS to Levels 8 and 9 to Accountants Respectively.

2.Promotion as AAO under 10%promotion quota
from due dates.

·HAILED
THE MEMBERS FORMAKING THE
STRIKE ON 8TH& 9TH JANUARY 2019A GRAND
SUCCESS

The meeting of the Federal Executives of
NFCAA was held at Nagpur on 11th February 2019 immediately after the
meeting of the Co-ordination Committee of Civil Accounts Employees and Officers
Associations was concluded. The meeting was chaired by Com. Amol. V. Sule,
President, NFCAA and Secretary General, AICAEA CATII. The meeting endorsed the decisions of the meeting of Co-ordination Committee of Civil
Accounts Employees and Officers Associations held on 11th February
2019 and took following decisions:

Seeking
immediate intervention of the Government of India against indifferent attitude
of CGA towards the causes of employees & officers of the organization

The All India Civil Accounts Employees
Association and All India Civil Accounts Employees Associations Category II
shall be signatories to the representation to be submitted to the higher
authorities by the Co-ordination Committee of Civil Accounts Employees &
Officers Associations in protest against the indifferent and adamant attitude
of Controller General of Accounts.

Poster Campaign from 1st March 2019

National Federation
of Civil Accounts Associations (NFCAA) shall resort to extensive postering
throughout the country demanding intervention of the Government against
indifferent and anti-employee attitude of the Controller General of Accounts.

TWO DAYS CONSECUTIVE
MAHA DHARNA IN FRONT OF CGA OFFICE, NEW DELHI

FROM 10.30 AM OF 12th TO 4 P.M. OF 13th
March 2019

·The
Dharna shall be held in front of the office of Controller General of Accounts,
New Delhi under the banner of Co-ordination Committee of Civil Accounts
Employees & Officers Associations. It shall commence at 10.30 A.M. of 12th March
and
continue till 4 P.M. of 13th March 2019.

·All
National Executive members of AICAEA and AICAEA CAT II, Federal Executive
Members of National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations, office bearers
of state/station/local COCs, Branch Committee members and Unit Committee
Members (of All India Civil Accounts Employees Association) shall participate
in the Dharna.

·All
participants for Dharna shall ensure their arrival at the Dharna spot before
the commencement for the Dharna.

·Station/State
wise participants from different affiliates shall be as under-

Sl.
No.

Branch/Station/
state

No. of
participants from

NFCAA

AICAEA

AICAEA
CAT-II

Total

1.

North
East(Shillong and Guwahati)

4+3=7

2+2=4

11

2.

West Bengal (all stations)

30

10

40

3.

Jharkhand

5

3

8

4.

Bihar

5

3

8

5.

Orissa

2

1

3

6.

AP & Telangana state(all stations)

20

4

24

7.

Tamilnadu & Pondicherry(all stations)

20

8

28

8.

Karnataka(all stations)

5

2

7

9.

Kerala(all stations)

5

2

7

10.

Mumbai

20

8

28

11.

Pune

5

2

7

12.

Nagpur

10

4

14

13.

Nashik

3

2

5

13.

Madhya Pradesh(all stations)

5

2

7

14.

Rajasthan(all stations)

10

2

12

15.

Gujrat (all stations)

5

2

7

16.

Punjab(all stations)

5

2

7

17.

Himachal(all stations)

2

1

3

18.

Uttarakhand(all stations)

5

2

7

19.

Haryana(all stations)

5

2

7

20.

Delhi

40

15

45

21.

Lucknow

10

5

15

22.

Kanpur

5

3

8

23.

Allahabad

4

2

6

24.

J&K(all stations)

2

2

2

STRUGGLE FUND

Since large number of members shall come to Delhi from different
Branches and Units to take part in the two days Dharna on 12th
&13th March 2019, huge amount of additional financial burden
shall be there on the Organisations. The meeting has therefore, decided that a
struggle fund shall be generated to mitigate the additional financial burden. All
members shall be appealed to contribute a minimum of Rs. 100/- (one hundred
only) to the Struggle fund. This fund shall be retained by the Branches and
they shall use the accumulated amount for the to and fro journey of the
participants for Dharna. Delhi Branches shall use the fund for arranging buses/
transportation of the members from different parts of the city to CGA office. The
Central Headquarters of AICAEA and AICAEACATII shall make arrangements for
boarding and lodging of the participants for Dharna in Delhi.

LEGAL ACTIONS ON THE ISSUES OF
GRANT OF

Benefit
of MACPS to Levels 8 and 9 to Accountants Respectively.Promotion
of Senior Accountants as AAO under 10%promotion quota from due dates.

1.The Principal Chief
Controller of Accounts, C.B.D.T., New Delhi vide order dated 01-08-2018 has
granted the 3rd MACPs benefit to Senior Accountants to the Grade Pay
of Rs:- 5400/- from Rs:- 4800/-. That means they were in receipt of Grade Pay
of Rs. 4800/- and have been granted the Grade Pay of hierarchical post of Asst.
Accounts Officer. Similarly, the Controller of Accounts, C.B.D.T., Mumbai in
compliance of orders of the C.A.T. Mumbai order had issued order on 01-02-2016
granting grade pay of Rs:- 4800/- as benefit of 2nd MACPs to Senior
Accountants. But rest of the Senior Accountants of Civil Accounts Organization
have been given the Grade Pay of Rs:- 4600/- as 2nd MACPs benefit
and grade pay of Rs:- 4800/- as 3rd benefit MACPs which amounts to
discrimination and violation of Article 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India.

Therefore,
the Central Headquarters of AICAEA vide its letter dated 08.10.2018 requested
CGA to remove the discrimination by issuing orders for granting grade pay of
Rs:- 4800/- and Rs:- 5400/- respectively as 2nd& 3rdMACPs benefits to all left out Senior
Accountants of the Civil Accounts Organization and place them on par the Senior
Accountants of ZAO, C.B.D.T., Mumbai. But CGA did not respond. The AICAEAvide its letter dated 17.01.2019
has once again requestedCGA to extend
the benefit to all left out Senior Accountants without further delay.But, CGA has preferred to ignore the requests
of the Association.

2.In persuasion of Ministry
of Finance, Government of India Notification dated 29.08.2008, the office of
the Controller General of Accounts had decided that the cadre of Junior Accounts
Officer and Assistant Accounts Officer would be re-designated as Assistant
Accounts Officer and classified as Group “B” Gazetted and till the new
Recruitment Rules are framed, the promotions to the new cadre of AAO would be
made in terms of existing RRs of JAO cadre. As per the Central Civil Accounts
Service (Junior Accounts Officer and Assistant Accounts Officer) Recruitment
Rules, 2000, 90% posts in the grade of Junior Accounts Officer shall be filled
by promotion of persons who have passed Junior Accounts Officers (Civil)
Examination and 10% of posts in the grade shall be filled up by promotion of
senior Accounts who have rendered not less than 10 years’ service in the grade
on selection-cum-seniority and who have crossed the age of 53 years as on 1st
January of the year.

From December
2014 onwards, CGA office had stopped granting promotions to the eligible
persons under 10% promotion quota. The AICAEA was however, conveyed vide letter
dated 26.10.2015 that, a separate method for promotion of Senior Accountants
shall be adopted through issuing of Notifications of Recruitment Rules for
Supervisor (Accounts) and AAOs simultaneously. But it is more than three years
now, CGA has not taken any action.

Due to above
narrated situations, hundreds of eligible Sr. Accountants have not got the due
promotions as Assistant Accounts Officers from December 2014 onwards and many
of the Sr. Accountants have even retired from service while nearly 50% (fifty
percent) posts of Assistant Accounts Officers in the Civil Accounts
Organization are lying vacant for last four years.

The AICAEA
vide its letter dated: 10.09.2018 requested CGA that since neither the Central Civil Accounts
Service (Junior Accounts Officers and Asstt. Accounts Officers) Recruitment
Rules, 2000 has been amended nor the Recruitment Rules for Supervisor
(Accounts) has been framed for last three years and the Senior Accountants
eligible for promotionsas Assistant
Accounts Officers under 10% promotion quota as par the provisions of the
Central Civil Accounts Service (Junior Accounts Officers and Asstt. Accounts
Officers) Recruitment Rules, 2000 were not granted promotion as Assistant Accounts
Officers despite existence of vacancies under the specified promotion quota,
all of them may be granted promotion as Assistant Accounts Officers
immediately. Further, the process of
granting promotion to Senior Accountants as Assistant Accounts Officers under
10% promotion quota may be continued till the Recruitment Rules for Supervisor
(Accounts) is framed and implemented so that the promotions of the Senior
Accountants are not stalled abruptly. But CGA ignored the letter of the
Association.

The Federal
Executives meeting has decided to take legal course of action on the issues
discussed above and directed the AICAEA headquarters to take necessary steps in
this regard. The meeting has also decided that, all the affected members
shall be asked to offer their willingness to become the party to the cases
being filed in the CAT and give their consent of sharing the expenditure
involved in legal process through their respective Branches.

In pursuance of the
decisions of the Federal Executive meeting, a delegation comprising Com. Amol V
Sule, President, Com. V. Bhattacharjee, Secretary General, NFCAA, Com. Ajay K.
Patole, Addl. Secretary General, Com. P. Amrute, Asstt. Secretary General,
AICAEA along with Com. G.R. Kumbhare,
Finance Secretary, AICAEA, Nagpur Branch met the Advocate at Nagpur on 12th
February 19 who had acquired the judgment for grant of MACP at higher grade pay
from CAT, Mumbai in favor of a section of the Civil Accounts Employees of
Mumbai. As per his suggestion, it has now been decided to file the cases in Pr.
CAT, New Delhi.

CADRE REVIEW PROPOSAL: ADDITIONAL POINTS

In the informal discussion with the Internal
Cadre Review Committee of CGA Office on 8th February 2019, the
official side had raised some doubts in the justifications in the matter of
upgradation of LDCs as Accounts Assistants (to the level of UDCs) and merger of
DEOs with the cadre of Sr. Accountants. Further, the official side had
suggested that, since there would be big gap between pay scales of Accounts Assistants
(level 4) and the Senior Accountants (level 7), the posts of Accountants may be
continued.

The Federal Executive meeting, after due
consideration has decided on these matter that,

1.In order to justify(a) the upgradation of LDCs as Accounts
Assistants and (b) the merger of DEOs with the cadre of Sr. Accountants, the
individuals and Branches shall send the copies of the orders of the local
authorities on allocation of duties to the members of these two cadres

and

2.Regarding
continuation of 20% posts of Accountants even after the Cadre Review, Branches shall give their opinion to the Central Headquarters of AICAEA
(email: aicaeachq@gmail.com) before 18th February 2019 so that it
could prepare a note on the point no:- 1 and 2 forward it to the Internal Cadre
Review Committee.

REVIEW OF TWO DAYS STRIKE ON 8TH AND 9TH JANUARY
2019

Ten major
Trade Unions of the country except BMS had called upon the working class of the
country to resort to two days strike on 8th and 9th January
2019 against the anti-employee and anti-working class policies
of the Government and in support of their Demands.

The
Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers' which represents
120 Central Government Employees organizations including the AICAEA and AICAEA
CATII had endorsed the call of strike and called upon the Central Government
Employees of the country to resort to strike in support of the ten common
demands of Central Government Employees and their respective depart-mental
demands.

The Central
Government Gazetted officers Associations (CCGGOO) representing all
major Central Government departments including Civil Accounts
extended support to the Strike and directed its state level Committees to
organize MASS DHARNA ON 8TH AND 9TH JANUARY
2019.

The Federal
Council meeting of the National Federation of Civil Accounts Associations held
at Bengaluru on 6th & 7th December, 2018 had endorsed
the call of two days strike on 8th and 9th January
2019.

AICAEA and
AICAEA CATII had served the strike notice to CGA on 12.12.2018 which was the
sixth anniversary of first ever strike of the Confederation demanding
appointment of 7 Pay Commission. The Charter of Demands was submitted along
with the strike notice in two parts -PART-A: Ten common demands of CG Employees
including to demand of “Scrap NPS and Restore OPS” and Part-B: Ten major
demands of Civil Accounts Employees including prominent demand of “Immediate
Cadre Review”.

In spite of
threatening by the Controller General of Accounts vide OM
dated 20.12.2018, the members observed “STRIKE PLEDGE DAY on 27.12.2018” and
served notice to all local heads of the Departments and offices informing that
that they shall be on strike on 8th and 9th January
2019.

Thousands of
Civil Accounts employees from all those places/stations/states where major
concentration of Civil Accounts Employees are there have participated in the
strike. There are many offices, where only one employee is working and such
single person had also participated in the strike. Members from North Eastern
States, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Tamilnadu &
Pondicherry, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Delhi, Bihar,
Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh took part in the strike. Strike was total in
Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh &Telangana, West Bengal and almost total in Assam
and Tamilnadu etc. In other places, percentages varied from 50 to 70 percent.

The strike
performance was therefore a grand success in the Civil Accounts Organization.

According to the
media reports nearly 20 crores workers took part in the strike on 8th and
9th January 2019.

The Federal Executive meeting congratulated
the rank and file of membership and offered red salute to them for making the
strike a grand success in the Civil Accounts organisation and becoming the part
of 20 CRORES STRUGGLING WORKERS OF THE COUNTRY.